Mr. W.H. Power's report to the Local Government Board on an outbreak of diphtheria in the Hendon ward of the Hendon urban sanitary district / [W.H. Power].

William Henry Power

Date:: 1883

Credit: Mr. W.H. Power's report to the Local Government Board on an outbreak of diphtheria in the Hendon ward of the Hendon urban sanitary district / [W.H. Power]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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v December and January ; and to this end I sought information of each of the several medical practitioners in the place. All of them were so good as to help me, and in the course of a few days supplied me with lists of diphtheria and sore throat cases coming under their notice in the period referred to. Meanwhile I made investigation of the Mill Hill diphtheria for the purpose of learning what relation (if any) the disease there had had with that in Hendon village. So far as I could learn by detailed inquiry of the patients, there had been no sort of connexion between the two series of cases, and having satisfied myself of this, I thenceforward concerned myself with the circumstances of diphtheria and sore throat prevalence in Hendon Ward alone. The chief facts of this prevalence as learned of the medical practitioners assisting me and supplemented by personal inquiry, with the facts also as to milk service of the several houses invaded, are given in the following table:— Table showing for the Hendon Ward of the Hendon Urban Sanitary District the date of invasion of Houses affected by Diphtheria and Throat Illness in the two months ending January 1883 ; the localities of those Houses; the Cases occurring in them, with Date of Attack, Age of Sufferer, and Nature of Illness in each instance ; and the Milk Service of the several houses. As regards each household invaded, attacks occurring in addition to the first case are printed in italics. Date of Invasion of Household. Locality of Household. 1882. 27th November 27th „ 29th „ 11th December John Street Tenterden Park Church Lane - Brent Street - 19th „ 1883. 2nd January - Sunny Gardens Church Lane - 5th 5th 99 99 Sunny Gardens Tenterden Park 5th >> Tenterden Park 5th 99 Holder’s Hill - 5th 3» Tenterden Park 5th 99 Holder’s Hill - 5th 99 Tenterden Park 5th 99 Tenterden Park 6th 99 Church Lane - Early 99 Holder’s Hill - Early Early 99 99 Brent Street - Foster Street - 7th 99 Harding Street Cases, Date of Attack, and Nature of Illness. Milk Supply of house¬ holds :—particular Dairy, or other source. Aged 1. Aged 4. Aged 6. Adult. 27th November. 27th „ 29th „ „ 11th December. Sore throat iBth „ 2/fth „ » ,, Aged 14. 19th December, Fatal diphtheria Diphtheria Quinsy. Sore throat. Inflamed throat » Nurse. 2nd January. Diphtheria Aged 8. 5th January „ 5th .. » ^h „ Cook. 5th January. Servant. 5th „ Slight diphtheria - Aged 13. 5th January. Diphtheria. ,, 10. 6th „ „ „ 11. 6th „ Slight diphtheria. Adult. 13th „ Sore throat. Aged 9. 5th January. Diphtheritic sore throat. Aged 13. 5th January. Diphtheritic sore throat. Three children. 5th and 6th January. Sore throats. Aged 6. 5th January. Fatal diphtheria - „ 3. 6th „ Slight „ Four adults. 5th and 6th January. Sore throats. Aged 8. 5th January. Diphtheritic sore throat. Aged 6. 5th January, Diphtheritic sore throat. Aged 4. 5th January. Diphtheritic sore throat Aged 3. 8th „ Fatal diphtheria. Cook. 18th „ Severe „ Adult. 20th „ Slight „ Two children. 5th and 6th January. Diph¬ theritic sore throats. Several cases. 6th to 9th January. Sore throats. Adult. 6th (?) January. Diphtheritic sore throat. Aged 4. 23rd January. Fatal diphtheria. Adult. 29th „ Slight „ Adult. 1st February. Fatal „ Several cases. Sore throat. Aged 14. 4th (?) January. Slight diphtheria Aged 11. 6tli „ Enteric fever. Adult. 7th „ Sore throat Aged 16. 13th Aged 6. 17th Aged Ilf.. 23rd » 99 99 99 99 Other source. Particular dairy. 99 99 99 99 99 1) 99 99 99 Other 99 source. 99 99 22502707835

Mr. W.H. Power's report to the Local Government Board on an outbreak of diphtheria in the Hendon ward of the Hendon urban sanitary district / [W.H. Power].

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